Word: greek
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Criticism Is Not Enough. It is not enough, said the President, for the college-educated to lend their talents to deploring present solutions. "Was John Milton to conjugate Greek verbs in his library when the liberty of Englishmen was in peril?'' Prince Bismarck found, the President recalled, that 'one-third of the students of German universities broke down from overwork. Another third broke down from dissipation, and the other third ruled Germany.' " Kennedy left it for each student to choose his third...
UNIVERSITY: NEVER ON SUNDAY, supposedly a shocking and corrupting movie by versatile Greek producer-director Jules Dassin ("Rififi"), is at least funny, and consistently so. It has an interesting outlook, and Melina Mercouri too--who is a major part of the outlook. Starts Wednesday: COME SEPTEMBER, a comedy of questionable value starring Rock Hudson, Gina Lollobrigida, Sandra Dee and (inevitably) Bobby Darin. The story of attempted seduction on the Riviera, it is inconsistently funny, but it has its moments...
Werner W. Jaeger, University Professor, Emeritus, whose great work, Paideia: The Ideals of Greek Culture, was a landmark in classical studies, died at the age of 73 yesterday morning in Peter Bent Brigham Hospital, following injury suffered in a fall. Until his death, Jaeger continued to serve the University as director of the Institute of Classical Studies...
...this attitude, Marcel claimed, conflicts with the philosopher's "demand for intelligibility." As early as the Greek philosophers, he saw "a need to clarify the nature of the act of comprehension, and to discover . . . how what we call reality lends itself to comprehension, and within what limits...
...Catholic Church is not particularly well treated by the government, other churches (Greek Orthodox and Moslem) are probably far less harassed since they are subject to the control of no external secular power and therefore offer far less competition to the power of the state. Tito himself attends Orthodox services. A museum in Lubjlana carried an exhibit of lithography with work representing most countries. A very large proportion of the prints where non-objective, something that would never be tolerated in Russia expect for purposes of deadnoting foreign artists. One of the major triumphs of the exhibit, however...